CXLIV. GRAMINEE. 597 
65. AMPHIPOGON, R. Br, 
(ZEgopogon, Beauv. Gamelythrum, Nees.) 
Spikelets 1-flowered, nearly sessile in a dense panicle contracted into 
a head or short spike, the rhachis of the spikelet ME above the 
2 outer glumes, and not eontinued beyond the flow Glumes 3, 2 
outer persistent, membranous, 3-nerved, acute or aimee to an awn- 
like point, rarely par ; flowering glume raised on a short hairy PM 
orawns. Styles united at the base, free upwards. Grain enclosed in 
the slightly hardened upper glume.— Perennial grasses with couvolute 
terete or subulate leaves. 
The genus is endemic in Australia. 
Spikelike panicle oblong. uie bet po 3-lobed. 
stems slender, u nder 6 
Spikelike panicle Selinger: or : oblong, rarely shortened : 
into an ovoid head. Outer glumes “entire, rather acute 2. A. strictus. 
. debilis. 
be 
lobular. 
Outer glumes ha ea with rigid pte Flowering glume 
ar piris e, awns not protruding beyond the . : 
outer glumes. gre candle: sie 3. A. laguroides. 
Outer glumes ciliate, with fine points. Flowering | glume 
veas sessile, the capillary awns pstendinn yond 
e outer glumes. Stems glabro . A. cygnorum. 
Outer Memo ciliate, with long ME Flowering glume ; 
a long stipes, the fine awns protruding .. . A. turbinatus. 
debilis, R. Br. Prod. 175.—A small decumbent or tufted 
grass, rarely ets 6 in. eM the stems and leaves almost filiform. 
nto 3 awn-like lobes, glabrous or minutely ciliate, the lateral ones 
vith harrow aaa margins. "alea deeply 2-lobed.—Aigopogon debilis, 
uv. Agrost. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, Baxter, also Drummond, n. 
F. Mueller, Fragm. viii. 201, unites this with A. strictus under the name of 4. 
Brownei, m besides the: habit and other iei eae although the vse Mees of 
A. strictus may when old split up irregularly, they are never trifid when young as 
In 4. debilis. 
2. A. strictus, R. Br. Prod. 175.—Stems from a horizontal rhizome 
or tufted branching base erect and slender, usually above high. 
aves rather short, erect, subulate, glabrous. Spikelike panicle dense, 
